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Redesdale and other influential personages took the matter up, and 
Sir John Simon, with whom I had an interview through the good 
offices of Colonel W. Hall Walker, M.P. (Deputy-Chairman of the 
Art and Exhibitions Sub-Committee), undertook to give the matter 
favourable consideration. Eventually, the objectionable clause 
was dropped, on the motion of the Earl of Derby. 
With the sanction of the Committee, I attended the meeting of 
the Museums Association at Brighton, on 10th to 14th July, and, 
while there, being requested to contribute a paper to the proceedings, 
I wrote one on ‘‘ The Functions and Scope of a Municipal Art 
Museum,’ which provoked considerable useful discussion, and was 
afterwards published in the proceedings of the Association in 
January, 1912. (Vol. II., No. 7, page 193.) 
In the course of the year, the No. 5 Loan Collection of Turner 
Drawings, lent by the National Gallery in 1909, was returned. 
Twelve casts of antique statuary were transferred to the City 
School of Art, and the Model of Rome was removed from the East 
Back Room, prior to the alterations which have been referred to. 
The care of the Permanent Collection has been greatly facilitated 
by the new and capacious gilders’ room, constructed in 1909. During 
the year the following special work has been done :— 
No. 269, Portrait of Alderman W. Bennett, by W. B. 
Boadle, was repaired by the artist. 
New frames were provided for No. 407, H. L. Elmes 
(Engraving), by T. Oldham Barlow, R.A. (also new mount) ; 
39 Etchings and Mezzotints, by John Finnie; 25 Liverpool 
Sketch Club Drawings; 39 Hunt Drawings. 
The following were mounted:—39 Finnie Etchings and 
Mezzotints; 145 Hunt Drawings; 62 Liverpool Sketch Club 
Drawings. 
The frames of the following were repaired and re-gilt :— 
No. 893, ‘‘ Kittie,’ by Frederick Sandys; No. 655, ‘‘ The 
Widower,’’ by Sir Luke Fildes, R.A.; No. 330, ‘‘ Tried 
